Ok, yeah I know I named Tammy's best friend Jamie, but I changed it to Elizabeth, or Lizzie for short. I was too lazy to go back and fix it, so let's just say that I didn't even though I didn't. Thanks to An-Cat-Gaelige for the review on my first chapter! Oh, and I don't own any of the characters except for Thomas, Tammy, Lizzie, Uncle Jim, actually, just anyone you don't recognize as an original person.
"Wow, Thomas. You finally managed to get some friends who are actually fun to be around." Tammy said. "Nice choice of clothes. I approve." Tammy said to the five men standing in her basement. She looked them over for a moment and then realized who they were and she sighed.
"Tammy," Thomas began. "These guys came from the…um…"
"That thing?" Tammy asked nodding towards the time machine. "Yeah I know. What I can't understand is how."
"What do you mean?" Thomas asked. Tammy continued to watch the men as they stared blankly at the two of them talk almost as thought they weren't there.
"I'm sorry if we act like we are forgetting you are really here." Tammy apologized. One of older men nodded politely. "But Thomas, We should be sending things back not actually taking people out of time. Man, this is going to be as difficult as hell to explain to Uncle Jim."
"But your theory, does it still apply?" Thomas asked. He meant that they can't alter the past. Because if it had worked, than it was supposed to work, and what ever they do in the past, it had already happened. Tammy took off her glasses and looked at Thomas. Her vision wasn't bad or anything, she just wore them for computers.
"Yes, and hopefully I'm right." Tammy said. She walked past the men and into the machine herself. She picked something off of the ground and walked back out. She held it in her hands and sighed.
"What?" Thomas asked not knowing what Tammy was doing.
"This is the book I tried to send back." Tammy said. She sat down in her chair. "It didn't malfunction at all. The commands were just messed up."
"I still don't get it." Thomas said.
"Neither do I, at least not entirely. All I know is that we didn't send anything back, we just brought them" she nodded at the men, "forward. But I don't understand why." She went back to the computer and started typing again. Thomas looked at one of the oldest men and he smiled. They all looked somewhat frightened and curious. Not to mention completely confused as to what was going on.
"See." Tammy said finally. "The command was to take into the past. So that book shouldn't be here. And why these people? I don't know." She turned to face them. Tammy once again looked them over and then realized what had happened.
"But how?" Tammy asked herself. "That doesn't make any sense. And there was no secondary command. Hmmmm…" Tammy's words were random and made no sense to anyone else in the room.
"Well, as I understand it, you are Captain Jack Aubrey, correct?" Tammy asked the oldest man while she put her glasses back on. Mr. Aubrey was taken aback by Tammy's correct 'assumption'.
"Why, yes miss. And you two are who?" He asked.
"Thomas Cools." Thomas said politely.
"Tammy Anderson. We're cousins." Tammy said referring to herself and Thomas. Jack Aubrey nodded.
"So then you are…" Tammy said moving onto the next grown man.
"Paul Bettany." Thomas said interrupting. He and Tammy started laughing a bit which seemed to slightly anger Jack Aubrey.
"You should not insult people older than you!" He half shouted.
"I'm sorry." Tammy said recovering. "He just has an outstanding resemblance to someone we know. I'm sorry, but you must be Doctor Stephen Maturin."
"Yes." the Doctor said quietly.
"And you are….I know this, I know this…. Gosh! I want to say Lee but that's not right!" Tammy said as she faced Hollom. He opened his mouth to say his name but Tammy stopped him.
"No! I know it…It's Hollom, isn't it?" Tammy said. Hollom nodded a bit and Tammy moved on.
"Peter Calamy, are you not?" Tammy asked. Calamy nodded and Tammy came in front of the still-two-armed Blakeney.
"Lord William Blakeney, I presume?" Tammy said slightly smiling with Thomas holding back a small laugh in the background.
"Aye." Blakeney said.
"So," Tammy said as she paced in front of the men. "Any questions?"
Blakeney put his hand halfway up, still a bit nervous and confused and now scared at Tammy's ability to name everyone like she just had.
"Yes?" Tammy said stopping in front of Blakeney again.
"Um…" Blakeney looked at everyone else in the room and then back at Tammy. "Where exactly are we?"
"You guys are in my basement." Tammy said. "Which is in Sammamish." She said noticing the confused looks on their faces. "In Washington state." She continued. "Which happens to be in the United States of America."
"There's something we know." Jack Aubrey exclaimed. "But what was that you said before that? Wazringcon state?"
Tammy laughed a bit at his pronunciation. "It's Washington, named after the first president of the United States."
"Washington is on the West Coast of the U.S." Thomas finished for her. All of the men looked confused again. They stared at Thomas and Tammy oddly. Tammy walked over to Thomas and whispered something to him and he realized his mistake. He laughed a bit and Tammy tried to explain.
"Well see, there's more land beyond what is currently America and…I think it's Spanish territory back then, or maybe…"
"Wait, Tam." Thomas said. "How do you know when they're from?"
"Oh sorry. I'll try explaining things toughly." Tammy said. She sat down again and coughed badly. Thomas hung his head knowing Tammy would just deny anything was wrong with her.
"So, that contraption you guys came here in, it's an invention of mine." Tammy told them. Everyone could tell this was going to be a long story. "It's supposed to be a time machine, and take things from our time into the past, like your time. I have also disabled it so it can take anything from or to the future past our year, which is 2005." Tammy informed them. "So, to test it, I placed a book in there and it has a camera on it." She turned to the computer and showed them what the camera was filming. "We lost the signal after the machine died and now that it's out, without so many electro-magnetic waves it can function properly. And when I was talking to myself, and obviously making no sense, I understood who you were."
Tammy walked back over to the book and took the small camera off of it. She opened the book and showed the some pages with certain words highlighted.
"This book is written about some of the adventures you guys go on, some mention in here that you apparently haven't gone through yet." She said looking at Blakeney. His stomach churned just by the stare of Tammy. She sat down and began talking again. "There is also a movie based on this book. I saw the movie first and then read this." Tammy held up the book. "So while I was reading this, I highlighted some of the names I recognized, which was you five. So by putting it in the time machine, something must have happened to screw up the commands I programmed and fetched you guys because the book give the proper year and location and me highlighting the names. That's how I know your names." Tammy directed towards the new comers, "And that's how I know what year." Tammy said to Thomas.
Just then there was another loud explosion and some more banging and clashing. Tammy got up and looked at her Time Machine. She sighed seeing that some of the parts had broken.
"Thomas?" Tammy asked. "When does Kip close his store?" The items she needed to repair it were only sold at Kip's Store of Miscellaneous Items.
"Um, ten minutes ago." Thomas said. "Why?"
"Ah, shit." Tammy sighed. She hung her head and began talking to herself again. Meanwhile, Jack Aubrey was asking Thomas some questions.
"Does she always curse without a care?" He asked.
"Yep."
Tammy stopped her pacing and turned to face everyone, for the fifth-hundred time, and said, "Well, to fix that" Tammy nodded towards the machine, "I need some supplies from Kip. I guess since today's Friday, we'll all have to wait until Monday afternoon to fix it."
"Why the afternoon?" Captain Aubrey demanded.
"I have school. I can't skip out on that. But I promise I'll have it by Monday, Tuesday at the latest." Tammy promised.
"Actually, Tuesday the earliest." Thomas said somewhat quietly. Tammy spun around and glared at him.
"What?" She asked, glaring. Thomas wished he could just disappear. He stepped back and squealed the words, "Kip won't be there on Monday because he's getting married but he'll be back on Tuesday but he leaves Thursday for his honeymoon."
"Kip!" Tammy shouted at the ceiling. Everyone, except Thomas, was curious as to why she was yelling at the ceiling. "Why are you getting married on a Monday? You Idiot!" Tammy looked at Thomas with sad eyes. "Why does Kip have to get married on Monday?" She fell back into a chair and the looked up again with a cocked eyebrow and a face that showed confusion.
"Since when does anyone wannamarry Kip?" Tammy asked. She snapped out of it and looked back at Thomas. "So he's back on Tuesday, right?"
"Yeah, but he might be a bit busy on those days cuz he leaves Thursday to go on his honeymoon and possibly move away."
"What do you do in your spare time?" Tammy asked. The five men couldn't help but snicker a bit as Thomas gave Tammy a face that said ha-ha-very-funny.
"So I guess you guys are stuck here with us until Tuesday or even Wednesday." Tammy said. "If you guys wanna go upstairs and watch a movie, I have a call to make. Or if you wanna stay, I don't care." Everyone stayed to watch Tammy talk to some people over the 'computer phone'.
First she called Michel to ask if he was still coming over the next day for a sleepover with Thomas. Of course, Michel was still coming, so Tammy re-explained everything.
"My head is still spinning." Blakeney whispered to Calamy. Calamy nodded in agreement. Tammy kept spinning and rolling about in her chair and looked onto one screen out of many that showed someone that appeared to be on someone's front porch.
"Thomas, could you go get the door, Lizzie's here." Tammy said. Thomas nodded and went upstairs to greet Lizzie.
"So, does anyone still have any questions?" Tammy asked, now standing up. Whenever Tammy constantly switched from sitting to standing it meant she was nervous, and who could blame her now? She had a broken time machine, five men from 1805 in her basement, and had to wait until at least Tuesday to get them back home. No on replied to Tammy's question, in fear that their heads might explode, but that was probably going to happen anyway.
Ok, sorry, I thought I was going to get some more in, but I just wanted to put this chapter up. So, why will their heads explode? Because of LIZZIE! The next chapter will be about the weekend, and maybe Monday if I can get it in, but insanity is guareenteed!